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How to decorate with chinoiserie
How to decorate with chinoiserie: some of the most beautiful examples from both historical and contemporary rooms.
Originating from the French 'chinois', meaning Chinese, chinoiserie gained popularity in the 18th-century when people wanted to bring scenes from the exotic, far away Orient into their homes. As demand grew, designs were made closer to home and the style became increasingly westernised - homes were filled with beautiful, intricate chinoiserie designs, examples of when east meets west in design terms.
Modern chinoiserie retains this craft heritage, with many wallpapers and fabrics still hand-painted by companies such as de Gournay. These detailed decorative pieces offer a failsafe way to add interest to any room - whether used to simply spruce up a screen or to cover the walls of every room like in this super-patterned flat, join us in our ongoing love affair with chinoiserie.
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Simon Brown
De Gournay's reproduction of the design of antique chinoiserie wall panels from the grand cabinet room at Houghton Hall in Norfolk has become the starting point for an elegant and pretty bathroom with an apricot pink ground, accented by woodwork in Farrow & Ball's 'Breakfast Room Green.
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In Hannah Cecil Gurney's London homeThe living room features a chocolate-brown chinoiserie on matte rice paper evocative of the Coromandel screens in Coco Chanel's Paris apartment. De Gournay silk curtains, sofa, and pillows are complimented by a Jennifer Manners rug.
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Simon Brown
Hannah Cecil Gurney's west London flat is a feast of luxurious colour, texture and pattern - little surprise given that her father founded the handmade wallpaper company de Gournay. Cushions from Beaumont & Fletcher are among the golden accents in the spare room. Despite the small floorspace of the flat, the ceilings were restored by Hannah to their original double-height, meaning every space in the flat has been made larger without losing its cosiness.
The de Gournay Chinoiserie wallpaper here is the 'Temple Newsam' design in special colourway on moss green Williamsburg painted silk.
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Lucas Allen
In this flat designed by Tom Bartlett of Waldo Works, the back wall of the main bedroom is papered in a striking green de Gournay wallpaper. The dramatic design makes a wonderful feature wall. For more inspiration, discover our wallpaper ideas, murals and large patterned wallpapers and our pick of wallpaper designs. If green is what makes you keen, see how to use green paint.
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Rachel Whiting
South African decorator Stephan Eicker has beautifullybalanced a mix of classical British and Scandinavian design to surprisingly modern effect. The metallic hand-painted de Gournay wallpaper makes a bold statement. "We had already bought the two huge Venetian mirrors from Hilary Batstone, and the reflection of the pattern plays with the proportion of the room. It ends up feeling like the inside of a jewellery box. The sofa and chairs are some serious pieces of Gustavian design, which we covered in a plain Ottoman fabric and a striped ticking, both from Claremont. The ticking is complemented by the Robert Kime ikat lampshades and the two striped cushions appliquéd with Elizabethan floral embroidery from Howe."
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Simon Brown
In the sitting room, velvet pieces, including an antique lamp from Les Couilles du Chien, contrast with the peacock-print wallpaper from de Gournay. Hannah prefers silk wallpapers, explaining how 'painted walls feel much colder as it becomes part of the architecture, not the decoration'.
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Lucas Allen
'The whole time we were working on this house our aim was for things not to match too much,' says designer David Bentheim of this scheme. Juxtaposing the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, David copied original paneling that remained in an upstairs room, and installed a screen covered in de Gournay fabric behind the thoroughly modern, metal four-poster bed. Concealed within the bespoke white chest at the bed's foot is a flat-screen television, which is raised and lowered using remote control.
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Richard Powers
If you can only afford one wall of a luxurious wallpaper colour match the other three to its background colour. Here in the main bedroom of a Chelsea family home designed by Turner Pocock, a hand-painted de Gournay silk wallpaper is matched with a similar chartreuse paint.
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Simon Brown
Hannah Cecil Gurney's west London flat is a feast of luxurious colour, texture and pattern - little surprise given that her father founded the handmade wallpaper company de Gournay. In the main bedroom hand-painted silk cushions and a Burmese lamp pick up on the green in the 'Badminton' wallpaper from de Gournay,http://degournay.com/ which 'provides a cocoon of birds and butterflies that makes [Hannah] so happy'. The paper has been antiqued in order to give a tarnsihed effect.
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De Gournay's hand-painted wallcoverings are exceptional in their beauty and quality. Here, interior designer Sarah Delaney proves that their intricate chinoiserie pattern - based on seventeenth-century Chinese designs - can look light and modern when used on a pearlescent silver ground.
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Simon Upton
Traditional Painted Screen - Decorating with Chinoiserie | Interiors
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Simon Brown
The blue-and-white scheme of this dining room belonging to interior designers Philip Vergeylen and Paolo Moschino is based on the eighteenth-century painted French screen that hangs on the wall. The hand-painted blue design is 'deliberately not like wallpaper.' Philip worked closely with the artist, Dawn Reader, to create this effect. Dawn is contactable through Nicholas Haslam.
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Miguel Flores-Vianna
At the eighteenth-century French-inspired Rococo manor house Svindersvik, in Stockholm, built in the 1740s by Swedish architect Carl HÃ¥rleman for Claes Grill, the director of the Swedish East India Company at the time, the walls of the master bedroom are covered in a lively floral Chinese wallpaper, charmingly offset by cotton gingham upholstery and curtains.
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Miguel Flores-Vianna
In the antechamber at Svindersvik's the eighteenth-century gilt mirrors and clock and the silk damask slipcovers are typical of the French Rococo style.
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Miguel Flores-Vianna
A perfect example of Svindersvik's mix of Swedish Rococo furniture, Chinese floral wallpaper, blue-and-white-tiled stove, and cotton gingham upholstery
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James Fennell
At Badminton, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have preserved the house's historic interiors while creating a comfortable setting for family life. Chinese export wallpaper and a copy of a bed by William and John Linnell - the original is now in the V&A - give the Chinese Bedroom its Eastern feel .
Source: https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/decorating-with-chinoiserie
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